Plans For A Permanent Solution To Flooding In Philadelphia's Eastwick Section Are Stalled. Here's Why.

CBS Philadelphia

July 17, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – As Eastwick, a Southwest Philadelphia community, prepares to receive more than $2 million in federal funding to build temporary flood barriers, the process of searching for a more permanent solution continues.

One of those potential long-term solutions is a levee, an earthen embankment, that would stretch along the same path as the temporary barriers.

But Lt. Col. Jeffrey Beeman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said their studies showed a levee could protect Eastwick, but it could also flood other areas.

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